Cristiano Ronaldo engaged to longtime girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez
Cristiano Ronaldo has proposed to his longtime girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez.
The 40-year-old Portuguese soccer star's new fiancee announced the exciting news on Instagram on Monday, August 11.
"Yes I do. In this and in all my lives," Rodriguez, 31 - who's been dating Ronaldo since 2017 - wrote in Spanish, alongside a selfie of the massive diamond engagement ring Ronald bought her.
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Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez's relationship timeline
Ronaldo has been dating Rodriguez for eight years.
The soccer star first stepped out publicly with the brunette beauty, who was a sales assistant when he met her, at the Best FIFA Football awards back in Zurich back in 2017. The couple went Instagram official in May of that same year.
The couple share four children together: twins Eva Maria and Mateo, Alana, and Bella. Ronaldo also has a 15-year-old son, Christano Jr., from a previous relationship.
While the couple have managed to lead a semi-private life, Rodriguez opened up about their early years of dating on her Netflix series "I am Georgina."
"Many times he'd come after work," Rodriguez, who was previously a Gucci store assistant, recalled of her now-fiancé. "He would come, I remember once, in a Bugatti. My coworkers went crazy. They get there on the bus, and I would leave in a Bugatti. I mean, people couldn't believe it."
"It was funny because I would wait for her outside the store in these flashy cars I have. ... We would go home, and there we would go into our own world," Ronaldo added.
A closer look at Georgina Rodriguez's stunning engagement ring from Cristiano Ronaldo
Ronaldo went all out when he buying Rodriguez's engagement ring.
While it hasn't been confirmed, a jeweler told "In Style," the diamond ring appears to be in the 20-25 carat range.
Kegan Fisher, co-founder of the fine jewelry brand Frank Darling told the outlet, "it appears to be a platinum oval three-stone setting with petite double-claw prongs, giving it a refined, elevated feel while keeping all eyes on that mega center stone."
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